Bandits Hold Up Train
HAUL FAILS TO MATERIALISE. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 8.30 p.m. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3. Eight bandits, armed with revolvers and a machine-gun, boarded the Denver-Rio Grande mailtrain to-night and iorced the driver to stop the train. They drove the crew back to the mail van .and ordered them to direct the mail clerks to open the van. Meanwhile, the clerks, suspicious at the train stopping, doused their lights and opened fire on the bandits, who escaped in a lorry. One of the train crew was killed while running back to flag an oncoming train.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 7
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